Habsburg monarchy Great Britain Hanover Hesse-Darmstadt
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Souham
Emperor Francis II Prince of Coburg
Units involved
Army of the North
Coalition Army
Strength
70,000-82,000
74,000
Casualties and losses
3,000 casualties 7 guns
4,000 killed or wounded 1,500 captured 60 guns
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Location within Europe
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War of the First Coalition (List)
Porrentruy
Quiévrain
Marquain
Tuileries
Verdun
Thionville
Valmy
Lille
Mainz
Jemappes
Sardinia
Martinique
Guadeloupe
Den Helder
Siegburg
Altenkirchen
Wetzlar
Kircheib
1st Kehl
Malsch
Neresheim
Amberg
Newfoundland
Würzburg
Limburg
2nd Kehl
Biberach
Ireland
Fishguard
Neuwied
Diersheim
Flanders campaign
Chouannerie
Mediterranean campaign
War in the Vendée
War of the Pyrenees
Italian campaigns
East Indies Theatre
Rhine campaign of 1793–94
Atlantic campaign
Rhine campaign of 1795
Rhine campaign of 1796
Anglo-Spanish War
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Flanders campaign
Jemappes
1st Limburg
Anderlecht
Namur
1st Maastricht
Breda
1st Aldenhoven
Neerwinden
1st Condé
Raismes
Famars
1st Valenciennes
Caesar's Camp
Lincelles
Dunkirk
1st Le Quesnoy
Hondschoote
Avesnes-le-Sec
Menin
1st Courtrai
Maubeuge
Wattignies
Cysoing (1793)
Marchiennes (1793)
Le Cateau
Battle of Vaux (1794)
1st Landrecies
Villers-en-Cauchies
Beaumont
Mouscron
Willems
2nd Courtrai
Grandreng
Tourcoing
Tournay
Erquelinnes
Gosselies
Ypres
Lambusart
Fleurus
2nd Landrecies [fr]
2nd Le Quesnoy [fr]
2nd Valenciennes [fr]
2nd Condé [fr]
Boxtel
Sprimont
2nd Maastricht
2nd Aldenhoven
Puiflijk
Nijmegen
Luxembourg
Geldermalsen
Amsterdam
Den Helder
The Battle of Tourcoing (17–18 May 1794) saw a Republican French army directed by General of Division Joseph Souham defend against an attack by a Coalition army led by Emperor Francis II and Austrian Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. The French army was temporarily led by Souham in the absence of its normal commander Jean-Charles Pichegru. Threatened with encirclement, Souham and division commanders Jean Victor Marie Moreau and Jacques Philippe Bonnaud improvised a counterattack which defeated the Coalition's widely separated and poorly coordinated columns. The War of the First Coalition action was fought near the town of Tourcoing, north of Lille in northeastern France.
The Coalition battle plan drawn up by Karl Mack von Leiberich launched six columns that attempted to envelop part of the French army holding an awkward bulge at Menen (Menin) and Kortrijk (Courtrai). On 17 May, the French defeated Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche's small column while the columns of Count François of Clerfayt, Count Franz Joseph of Kinsky, and Archduke Charles made slow progress. On 18 May, Souham concentrated his main strength on the two center columns under the command of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and Rudolf Ritter von Otto, inflicting a costly setback on the Coalition's Austrian, British, Hanoverian, and Hessian troops.
The action is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Tourcoin, a gesture towards the English pronunciation of the town.[1]
^Cust 1859, p. 198.
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